It depends, I've seen cases where within a day they clean them and I've seen cases where it was 3-4 days and then I've heard of cases where it took longer, it depends on the girls, some are more hygienic than others.
How long does it take bees to clean out cells of scraped brood?
I have some frames I want to extract, but on one frame some of the cells in the bottom row had capped drone brood in them. I scraped the drone cells, which left a mushy mess in that bottom row. I opened up the brood nest in the box below….How long will it take for the bees to clean up the scraped up brood cells so I can pull the frames and extract?
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They get on them pretty quick usually a few days, next time leave them capped, uncap the honey, extract, and place back in hive. Done deal. Then it does not matter how long it takes them.
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